Geus looked down at the paper he received back. So much shame filled his spirit. His finger tapped the corner of the paper. 'I know studying wasn't my forte but.'.

"It's alright you're one of us, the best but not the smartest." Kaminari swung his arm around Geus's shoulder.

"Yeah not everybody can be great on both sides." Ashido wrapped her arm around the other side of him.

Geus turned around in his seat to Yaoyorozu, his eyes big and sadden like a puppy dog. "Momo." He whispered.

She looked genuinely sad at Geus. "I'm sorry, with all the events that happened and since our study time is restricted to school hours I wasn't able to study with you as much."

"You were allowed to visit me." Geus changed his expression once he realized everything. "Everybody was allowed to visit me. In prison." He scoped around the room, all his classmates avoided him. He stopped at Midoriya, mostly because of his intense reaction to hide. Geus's finger rose above his chair and rested on it as he pointed. "You could've helped me too." He switched his point to Shoto. "So could of you."

"Why would I help when you only needed to pay attention." Shoto mocked.

"I may be able to assist all of you with the class lectures." Yaoyorozu stepped in. She was the top student with the midterm grade.

Jiro, seventh place on the midterm. She approached Momo with her papers. "I'm having trouble with quadratic functions."

"Me too?" Sero scored seventeen. He landed in front of Momo's desk and clapped his hands above his head. "How are you with classical Japanese."

Ojiro, eighth place joined in, his slouched shoulders and slightly raised hands indicated his nervousness to her. "There's a bunch of stuff I don't get."

"Everyone." Momo jumped out of her seat, her arms flung high above her head. "Alright! Then, let us hold a study session at my residence this weekend!"

Geus's heart sank. His sadness covered his ears to hear nothing she spazzed about. There would be no way in his current situation to receive any tutoring for his classes. The result of school was behind him now. Before his quirk, he was an average B or C or even D student depending on the class. With all the hero work placed on he was all the way on the bottom.

"Don't worry." Yoayorzu bent down in front of him. Her smile on her face brightened up his excitement. "I'll visit you or have something else placed to have you in."

Geus was further than happy for the resulted outcome. Maybe the efforts of the warden and Yoayorzu's family could've figured out something for visitation. He looked up and behind him. "Bailey."

The lieutenant glared back down at his subordinate. "The Yoayorzu's made an incredible donation to get you here. Be happy."

Geus looked down at his hands and pulled apart at the cuffs. "Don't worry, it'll be gone after today."

"You do realize this is a publicity stunt right?" Geus turned back to him with a raised eyebrow.

"If you can be let out without complications then it sets you above everyone else. And with the backing of a respected and wealthy family, it sets the public to have their trust in you. Or on the other hand, you flip out, I'm here so it also sets if anything happens we are capable of handling any situation. The choice is yours. Also." Bailey leaned down to Geus's level. "Is that Jiro? The girl you like?" He whispered. Even with the hushed tone, Jiro heard everything. Her face was as red as his now. "Can't wait to tell Beka all about this when she returns."

"I wish I was placed back in solitary confinement."

Bailey fixed his posture after everyone walked past the open gate. "Well, times are changing."

How well this one study session wouldn't be known till well after the full exams took place. Everyone that participated in Momo's study session felt more prepared for the last part of the test. Even with Bailey staring each one of them down at times. Geus was able to finish the last part of the exams thanks to her either way. The photoshoot, Bailey, Jiro, with all those things on mind he was still able to compete. In no way he was the top of the class and at the same time, not in the bottom.

Pass or fail, this test wasn't what he feared the most. The second part of the series scared him. All his classmates were gathered along outside in their hero gear. Teachers of UA lined up in front of them, with the principle. Geus carried his helmet in one arm.

"If you want to go to the training camp, then don't make any stupid mistakes." Aizawa began his speech for the practical exam. "I expect that you all have gathered information ahead of time."

"We're fighting robot warriors right?" Kaminari jolted in excitement. "Like the entrance exams!"

"Too bad!" The principle popped out of Aizawa's scarf. "For various reasons, the exam will be different starting this time!" He crawled out of the rags and down Aizawa's body. "We want to focus on person to person combat and herl work. We'll have you form teams of two to fight against one teacher!"

Geus flipped his mask to see the blacked out eye sockets. A bead of sweat rolled down his forehead and onto the forehead of the mask. 'My defense form isn't nearly strong enough to take out a teacher. And to fight with my offensive form could cause serious damage. I've heard nothing about antidotes for my quirk. What do I do?'. Geus gulped down his throat and paid attention.

"The pairs and who you face has already been decided. Many factors went into the competitors including fighting style, grades, and interpersonal relationship." Aizawa went off to read off the listing. And Geus was left out of the decisions. It wasn't much of a surprise for him after a lone minute of thought. He was after all a last minute add on to the class. "I didn't forget you, Geus." Geus gasped and gulped down his saliva again. "Since this is a group effort rating, it's not fair to pin you alone or into a group of three. At the same time, it's not fair to give one student a chance. So you'll be fighting"

"Me." The doors to the building behind the teacher pushed open. Geus froze, along with many other of the students. The yellow grin of Iroh caused fear in them. "I placed my recommendation that you're comfortable with any student." Iroh fixed his belt and widened his legs. "So the conditions for our meet is whoever loses their fight, has a chance to team up with you against me." Iroh's eyes planted on Geus's weak and shaken gray eyes. "Remember, I'm an educator of sorts. And the partnership of UA gets me."

Geus waited inside the observer room with Midoriya and a few others. He carried two objects with every fight; to see who'd lose, and how his future teammate's quirks worked. One by one the battles were over, in conclusion, his pool for teammates were slim. Out of the entire group, only Sato has never seen Iroh before. Then there was Kirishima, hardened strength versus hardened strength. Or else the other fallen team of Kaminari and Ashido. An odd few to face against a man of his stature. Whoever he teamed with, would be no match for Iroh.

Aizawa entered the room. "Geus" he paused. "And Ashido."

"Alright!" She shouted.

"Remember, this isn't a second chance for you. It's to help your classmate pass his."

Her excitement dwindled down, it gave Geus a disappointed tone as well. They weren't the best of friends but he expected in the slightest to fight for him. He couldn't keep that in mind and needed to focus on his opponent. Aizawa escorted them to a new facility inside the UA training zone.

The recent construction was dimly lit, a few of the already dim lighting flickered from their sockets. It was a straight line at about sixty feet to the other end and the safety gate. The room was about five or six people wide and two stories tall. Old concrete, rusted metal, and broken fences. The design was inspired by older prison architecture, a perfect place for Iroh to set up.

Iroh's hand wrapped around a corner into one of the open, metal cells. "Like it?" He walked from the hole. "A perfect team designed it once the teachers asked for my assistance." His black fingers dragged along the chipped white paint. "You got two choices, handcuff me, or escape behind me." He leaned up against the wall and waved his hand to the exit. "You can pass me right here, right now and just... Escape." His whole hand turned black. "Guess not."

He hand slashed forward and smashed it against the wall. A single line of chains dug against the concrete. Their eyes couldn't keep on it fast enough. It bounced off a piece of a broken metal. Geus grabbed Ashido's shoulders and tossed her aside. The chains bounced off the other wall and right back to Iroh. Geus chuckled and tugged on his own chain. In a second the chains snapped from their stiff shape and wrapped the two of them up.

Ashido angled her arms around and grabbed hold of the chains. Her acid grew from her hands and melted away the chains. She grabbed Geus by the collar and tugged him inside one of the cells. Their limited sights saw his chain links wrap around more metal. They couldn't see it till a large crash sound and a metal fence dropped into view. The metal chain swung back out of view.

Geus pointed up to the ceiling. Ashido nodded with a tiny huff, her arm shot up and exploded her acid through the concrete. His quirk manifested to the next level and around a hole. The gas hardened around to create a sturdy rope.

"Come on." Geus offered his arms and cuffed low. "He can't take us on two levels."

Ashido grabbed his shoulders and used the assistance of his hands to push herself into the air. She grabbed the fresh hole and pulled herself through. "Such a bad design." He mumbled. Metal against metal caught his attention again. His eyes saw the metal chain links traveled after him. He hollowed out his gas rope and quickly filled it with fresh gas. It exploded on his face but also misdirected the chains. The blast knocked him back into the wall. His right eye was exposed to the air. He locked on the trapped chains and grabbed hold of it.

"Come on boy? What you think you'd accomplish?" Iroh yelled. The chains escaped the wall and reversed back to Iroh. Geus couldn't escape the chains, it connected around his wrist and pulled him along.

He flung around the wall and into Iroh's extended fist. He looked up to the second floor. Ashido was a little bit ahead with her head poked out. "Now!" He shouted at her. He stiffened his arm and laid flat with his feet at Iroh. His gas flowed out and entrapped the chain. Iroh looked up at the now shouting girl. He moved his other hand up and launched another link of chains. Her acid splashed on the links and ate away at the metal.

Geus's own quirk melted away his abductor. He moved his gas over to his feet and hardened around the boots. Iroh grinned back at Geus. Geus forced his eyes down and clashed with Iroh. The warden flexed his chest and absorbed the blow from his prisoner. He grabbed Geus's unkles and slammed him into the wall. Iroh pinned Geus against his imprinted wall. His abnormally large hand was able to wrap around to both of Geus's temples. His eyes dived into his abyss of pupils.

The forced approach messed with his mind. He heard Iroh speak inside his mind. His look didn't change and neither did his mouth move. The words felt like they did before in his depressive state. His body was solid and he couldn't force his quirk out. Only the weak, steady flow massaged his cheeks. Only, they didn't fizzle up and melt away the skin.

"You'll die as your liars of friends escape," Iroh whispered.

"Good job, you passed!" The principle's voice called through the speakers.

"Geus! We did it!" Ashido ran back into the field.

Geus closed his eyes and opened them back up. He looked around his surrounding. His upper body was crashed inside a hollow hole while his toes dangled just above the floor. Iroh was in front of him with a large enough smile to squinch his eyes closed.

"Congrats!" His arms flew up into the air. He leaned down to Geus and helped him out of the wall. "Never thought your partner had acid like that." He brushed of Geus's clothes as he spoke. "Her quirk was able to melt my chains before they could continue out. Then your quirk almost reached my arm."

Ashido ran around Iroh and jumped into his unprepared arms. "We did it!" She cheered. Geus assisted her on him with one arm held around her back."

"Yes, yes, you both did it." Iroh clapped.

"He's not as scary as I thought." She patted Geus's cheek of the helmet as she continued to hold on tight.

"Yeah. We did it." Geus found it hard to soak in the moment of success. Maybe the teachers didn't see it or they really did defeat the person that held him back the most. To him, he threw the fight just to get deeper into Geus's mind. Whatever way Geus spun the scenario, this was a victory not rightfully appointed.

The tales of victory or misery of failure soon disappeared when they reached the school. All of this was to decide who would go to the training camp and who would not. But in a usual Aizawa twist, everyone gained a high enough score to pass. And still, this was not something Geus could celebrate over either.

Right after the announcement from his homeroom teacher Geus excused himself from class. A priority number called his phone in the middle of the lecture and forced him aside. At first, he thought it was a prank call from some hacker as the only voice was light whimpering.

"Geus." The first eligible voice cracked out from the speaker.

Geus paced himself up and down the hall as he thought of an appropriate response to give. He stopped. "Who is this? The number on here is one directly from the Institute."

"It's me... Maria."

His voice escaped him, he choked on a cough but quickly recovered. "Why, why are you calling me? I don't need any lectures from you."

"Keena's gone."